{"id":4172,"date":"2022-01-08T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2022-01-08T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T05:41:09","slug":"google-launches-ripple-an-open-standard-that-could-bring-tiny-radars-to-ford-cars-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Google has been publicly building tiny radar chips<\/a> since 2015. They can tell you how well you sleep<\/a>, control a smartwatch<\/a>, count sheets of paper<\/a>, and let you play the world\u2019s tiniest violin<\/a>. But the company\u2019s Soli radar hasn\u2019t necessarily had commercial success, most prominently featuring in an ill-fated Pixel phone<\/a>. Now, Google has launched an open-source API standard called Ripple<\/a> that could theoretically bring the tech to additional devices outside Google \u2014 perhaps even a car, as Ford is one of the participants in the new standard.<\/p>\n

Technically, Ripple is under the auspices of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the same industry body that hosts the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas each January, but there\u2019s little question who\u2019s actually behind the project. \u201cRipple will unlock helpful innovation that benefits everyone. General purpose radar is a key emerging technology for solving critical use cases in a privacy-respecting way,\u201d reads a quote from Ivan Poupyrev<\/a>, the man who led the team at Google\u2019s ATAP skunkworks that came up with Soli in the first place.<\/p>\n

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